Warming could spur "evolution explosion": study (fast-growing weeds evolve/adapt to climate change)

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 1/9/07 | Deborah Zabarenko

[Jaysun]

They're relentless. I'm almost ready to concede to their junk science just to shut them up.

[o_zarkman44]

If weeds can adapt to climate change, then crops should be able to do the same.
Weeds will be no more of a nuisance than they are now. So what??

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[Jeff Gordon]

Since evolution is entirely under the control of The Intelligent Designer everything will be ok. Insah Allah.

[KStorm]

This is nothing new. I get tons of weeds in my front yard when it's hot and dry.

[sionnsar]

the average onset of the age of reproduction in humans would slip from 16 years to 13 1/2 in seven generations.

Sounds like a social experiment to me...

[Northern Yankee]

But some long-lived species -- like the venerated California redwood tree, with a life-span of hundreds of years -- will not have the capacity to adapt so quickly, because their life cycles are so long, Weis said in a telephone interview.

Fortunately the redwood trees will outlive these idiots, and continue to thrive long after this stupid theory is dust.

Damn... what idiots these people are.

[ChildOfThe60s]

[Jaysun]

Fortunately the redwood trees will outlive these idiots, and continue to thrive long after this stupid theory is dust.

Damn... what idiots these people are.

Those redwoods are so old. I've always said that we should cut half of them down now and plant new ones before they just drop dead of old age. Because by not doing so we're robbing future generations of their chance to behold the magnificent treasures.

How's that for mamby-pamby feel good talk? Why not use their own absurd arguments. At least we'd get to use the damn things. As it is they're just something for hippies to chain themselves to.

[Dog Gone]

This sounds like another scary global warming story wrapped in evolution wrapping paper.

All the redwoods are going to be replaced by ugly weeds.

It won't happen, but since none of us will be alive to throw this back in his face, his mission has been accomplished.

[SouthTexas]

Round-up should solve most of the weed problems.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I'm shocked they didn't include abortion, gay marriage or stem cells in their conclusions.

At the least, blame Bush.

[Retired Chemist]

Make ethanol out of the weeds.

[Mr_Moonlight]

I know all about weeds. I get a million of 'em in the backyard every summer (when its hot, imagine that?)

[Mr_Moonlight]

Those redwoods are so old

An old adage says that: "A weed is any plant that you either don't want, or one that you don't want in that particular place"

[Jaysun]

An old adage says that: "A weed is any plant that you either don't want, or one that you don't want in that particular place"

I know. My neighbor raised a big stink when I pulled some weeds, or "rose bushes" as some like to call them, from his yard last year.

[labette]

Egad! They're right! In my own bean field! PORCUPINE EGGS!!

[Elsiejay]

Morphological and/or physiological changes facilitated by the plant species' existing suite of genetic material in response to a change in the environment will be equated, by evolutionists, to evolutionary development of a totally new species; just as the response of the peppered moth to altered living conditions, while remaining at all times the same species, is touted as evidence that new species are generated through evolution.

[sgtyork]

Minorities and Women weeds hardest hit.